Amid the ongoing controversy related to local-access lane closures at the George Washington Bridge in September, a New Jersey senator has also raised another concern about the span and its impact on commuters.

“We pay among the highest tolls in the nation for the privilege of crossing that bridge,” state Sen. Loretta Weinberg (D-Bergen) said during a November interview on the John Gambling radio program.

The Verrazano-Narrows bridge toll is $15 -- higher than the George Washington Bridge's toll of $13 -- but is Weinberg's assessment accurate about where the span stands in comparison with other bridges in the United States?

See what the Truth-O-Meter determined at PolitiFactNJ.com and then join the conversation about our ruling at NJ.com.